Justice in the Coalfields
MovieTitle | Justice in the Coalfields |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1995 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Anne Lewis Johnson |
Production country | United States of America |
Run time | 57 min. |
This film demonstrates how labor law has crippled the collective bargaining power of unions and weighed the scales of justice against working people. The documentary follows the 1988 United Mine Workers strike against the Pittston Coal Company that followed the expiration of their contract and Pittston's termination of the medical benefits of 1,500 pensioners, widows, and disabled miners.